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. He was a son of the

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Otto Nieroth and Gertrud Baranoff. He was first recorded in 1671 as a

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. In 1692 he had risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel, in 1700 to major general and in 1704 to

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Nieroth was involved in several successful battles, the

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being his greatest success. After Viborg was lost in 1710, Nieroth was sent to try to reclaim it. He assembled 10,000 men, who besieged the city in 1711 but lacked equipment to enter it, and had to retreat. He died suddenly during a temporary halt in Sarvlax manor () in

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parish, on 25 January 1712. He was married on 7 January 1686 in Stockholm to Christina Margareta Horn (d. 17 September 1703). He was elevated to

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on 26 June 1706.

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